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Portobello: A Novel

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Portobello: A Novel

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT OF RENDELLâ€™S FINAL NOVEL, DARK CORNERS

Ruth Rendell is widely considered to be crime fictionâ€™s reigning queen, with a remarkable career spanning more than forty years. Now, in Portobello, she delivers a captivating and intricate tale that weaves together the troubled lives of several people in the gentrified neighborhood of Londonâ€™s Notting Hill.

Walking to the shops one day, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addictionâ€”and his own good intentionsâ€”Wren hatches a plan to find the moneyâ€™s rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londonersâ€”people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wrenâ€™s lifeâ€”and the life of his trusting fiancÃ©eâ€”the consequences will change them all.

Portobello is a wonderfully complex tour de force featuring a dazzling depiction of one of Londonâ€™s most intriguing neighborhoodsâ€”and the dangers beneath its newly posh veneer.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-07-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439150405

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